Herman Beyle and James McCamy: Founders of the Study of Public Relations in Public Administration, 1928-1939
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This article is an historical inquiry into the two scholars whose work served as the foundation of the academic study of public relations in public administration. Herman Beyle’s Governmental Reporting in 1928 and James McCamy’s Government Publicity in 1939 were seminal in their impact. Beyle explored the democratic purposes of government public relations, and McCamy, its pragmatic uses. In retrospect, both Beyle and McCamy had had an extraordinary insight, namely that the communication of information was an essential and increasing aspect of government. Since then, the subfield of government public relations has had its ups and downs, but may be on the rise again.
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2008 ◽
Vol 34
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pp. 51-53
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